Unless you are hopelessly pessimistic (and who really can be with Spring Training just around the corner?), it’s hard to deny that the Orioles are entering into an exciting time. President of Baseball Operations Andy MacPhail has given direction to an aimless ship and crafted a team brimming with young talent. When MacPhail was hired [...]

It has been a dream and a goal of mine to drive out to Phoenix one of these Octobers and spend a month at the Arizona Fall League, watching the best minor leaguers play ball in a relaxed and honest atmosphere. A lot of that dream is quintessentially American: to just pick up and go [...]

Today brings part two of our award-winning* season ending minor league coverage, wherein we investigate the A ball levels of Frederick and Salisbury. They are farther away from the reality in Baltimore, but these two levels are by far the most important of the entire organization. In January the Orioles had a top ten farm [...]

Well folks, we made it. The minor league season is over, and although the year isn’t quite over for Break Up the Baysox (we still have the Arizona Fall League…luckily the Hawaiian Winter League, where Wieters was two years ago, has been shut down. And I’m not covering the Caribbean World Series, although I always [...]

My friends, we have nearly arrived at the end of the year for the Orioles’ minor league affliates. Unfortunately, only the Sox are still in the running for a playoff spot (1 game in The Loss Column behind Reading, and tied with Erie), but it is difficult to put up much fight against declaring the [...]

There is a special something in minor league baseball. I sat in the upper stands at Rochester’s wonderful Frontier Field last night pondering this, but I feel totally inadequate in my ability to put my finger on it. It isn’t tackiness – that isn’t quite right – and it isn’t purity – though there is [...]

The Fremulon Insurance Prospect of the Week
Jake Arrieta, in his last four starts, has 19 strikeouts to 6 walks in 24 innings with a 3.38 ERA and a 1.33 WHIP. He struggled mightily at first after his promotion to AAA, but those numbers are about what I expect from the big righty with the devastating [...]

The Fremulon Insurance Prospect of the Week
For the first time in human history, we have a tie in baseball. In this corner we have Brandon Erbe, who threw eight no-hit innings at New Hampshire before being removed for his pitch count – and after being shut down earlier this year with shoulder issues he had [...]